Archive for Temmuz, 2021

Thirty-two RS Feva’s competed for the 2021 RS Feva North American Championships hosted by Cedar Point Yacht Club in Westport, CT July 29-30th, 2021. A clinic was hosted the day prior to the event with support from the US Sailing […]

Arco, Italy (July 30, 2021) – Lake Garda delivered spectacular conditions for the penultimate day of the 2021 ILCA 6 (Radial) Youth World Championships. With south winds of 12-15 knots, 374 of the world’s best boy and girl sailors completed […]

Newport Beach, CA (July 29, 2021) – Racing continued today for ten teams competing in the 2021 Governor’s Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship. The second Round Robin was completed and the Repechage is in process. Jeffrey Peterson (USA) was […]

The 2021 CORK International Regatta Sail Canada Youth Championships Club 420 was held July 26-29. Ten races were held over the three day event. Luke Strickland and Christian Voyer (CAN) won the regatta with 16 points, just squeaking by Asher […]

Arco, Italy (July 29, 2021) – Two races were completed under classic Lake Garda conditions for the first day of Final’s Series racing at the 2021 ILCA 6 (Radial) Youth World Championships. With clear skies and 12-15 knot winds, the […]

On the eve of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games, Helena Scutt, who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the women’s 49erFX, spoke to Michelle Slade, St. Francis Sailing foundation. Helena shared her heart-felt experience when […]

The same things that make interclub team racing so engrossing—the close-quarters racing, the shared boats, the post-race social activity—are the same things that made it particularly vulnerable to COVID protocols in 2020. The New York Yacht Club (NYYC) canceled all […]

At this point, all entered yachts are accounted for in this 51st edition of the Transpac. This was a year of challenges for the 2021 Transpac: the COVID pandemic put tremendous uncertainty into every phase of planning for participants, organizers […]

Newport Beach, CA (July 28, 2021) – Racing continued today for ten teams competing in the 2021 Governor’s Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship. The first Round Robin was completed and the Round Robin #2 is in process. Emil Kjaer […]

Kingston, ONT (July 28, 2021) – Canadians from coast to coast to coast are invited to discover the joy of sailing, to enjoy their favorite sport and to cheer on their Canadian team at Tokyo 2020 as several events will […]

The International Olympic Committee has issued new guidelines to encourage gender-equal, fair and inclusive coverage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which features record female participation. Building on the first version of the Portrayal Guidelines published in 2018, the second edition […]

Arco, Italy (July 28, 2021) – With south winds from 5-15 knots, the qualifying series is now complete after three days of racing in the 2021 ILCA 6 (Radial) Youth World Championships on Lake Garda. All fleets have completed five […]

The United States Optimist Dinghy Association (USODA) 2021 Optimist Team Race National Championship will be hosted by Hampton Yacht Club, August 1-4, in Hampton, VA. This sailing regatta is for youth, ages 11 to 15. The teams of 4 or […]

Transpacific YC Commodore Jim Eddy led the crowd of 2021 Transpac sailors and their friends and family with this traditional greeting that has so many meanings in Hawaiian: Hello, Welcome, Goodbye, or as an expression of love and affection. On […]

Enoshima, Japan (July 28, 2021) – Enoshima is famous, notorious even, for its big wave action, and that’s what the sailors got on day four of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition. Alongside the big waves across Sagami Bay, the […]

Enoshima, Japan (July 27, 2021) – The excitement kicked up a gear on the third day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition as the women in the 49erFX Skiff put on a display of high speed boat handling and […]

Antoine Albert Scoring Some Super Fun Down-The-Line Conditions in Gran Canaria in the Peak of Summer When most people think of Gran Canaria they instinctively probably think of Pozo Izquierdo – famed for its howling winds and onshore jumping and […]

Newport Beach, CA (July 27, 2021) – Racing started today for ten teams competing in the 2021 Governor’s Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship. Due to the pandemic, a revised entry list was necessary when crews from Australia, New Zealand, […]

The fleet showing the biggest growth within the Rolex Fastnet Race is the Class40. Currently 39 of these mini IMOCAs are entered, a significant increase from the 19 that competed in 2019. The 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race now forms part […]

2021 Transpac Race analysis with Dobbs Davis of Seahorse Magazine with navigator Peter Isler of Pyewacket, Roy Disney’s turbo Volvo 70. Isler gives insightful comments on not only their experience on Pyewacket, but the race in historic context. Source: scuttlebutt […]

In 1995, Boston sailor Maureen McKinnon tripped while pushing her bicycle and fell 13 feet off a seawall in Rockland, Maine. Landing in shallow water she became paralyzed from the waist down. As a paraplegic, Maureen thought her sailing days […]

The 2015 TransPac aboard the 1907 schooner MARTHA. The Schooner MARTHA was built in May of 1907, and has been meticulously restored by Robert and Holly D’Arcy (a labor of love) as a Foundation Vessel with limited funds provided by […]

More than 100 three-person teams will descend on the Cleveland Yachting Club in Rocky River, Ohio to compete for the 75th Thistle National Championship, taking place July 31 to August 6, 2021. Situated on an island at the mouth of […]

Arco, Italy (July 27, 2021) – It was a tough day on the water for the Race Committee at the 2021 ILCA 6 (Radial) Youth World Championships in northern Lake Garda. With a less than promising forecast, the committee sent […]

Hamilton, Bermuda (July 26, 2021) – Organizers for the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club’s Bermuda Gold Cup match racing tournament announced that the 2021 regatta will not be held. The regatta, an event of the World Match Racing Tour, had been […]

Enoshima, Japan (July 26, 2021) – There was more wind than expected for the second day of racing at the Olympic Sailing Competition which was just as well as the lumpy, confused wave pattern made it hard to get into […]

The 2021 USODA Girls National Championship concluded on Sunday, July 25th in Norfolk, VA. Ninety nine entries sailed four races in total, in 10-15 knots of breeze from the southwest. Racing area was in the mouth of the Lafayette River […]

There were mere points between the top boats in several classes and one tie that needed to be broken on the morning of the final day of the 2021 Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta at Marblehead Race Week, held July 22-25. […]

In the face of a tricky weather forecast the SailGP Plymouth event delivered more action than many had expected including boats speeds hitting three times the wind speed and fleet racing that turned inside out with every race. Plus, there […]

(July 25, 2021) – Several intrepid sailors are still on course to Hawaii. Here is an update from Team Favonius… Conditions have lightened up as the breeze has backed off to 15 to 18 kts; so we are focused on […]

Edgartown, MA (July 25, 2021) – Sailing doublehanded on the Jeanneau Sunfast 3300 Alchemist, Rhode Islanders Ken Read (Portsmouth) and Susie Nairn (Jamestown), collected a boatload of trophies for their ‘Round-the-Island (‘RTI) Race performance at the annual Edgartown Race Weekend, […]

The 1975 Transatlantic Race, from Newport (USA) to Cowes (GBR), on the Swan 48 Weald. Source: scuttlebutt – https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2021/07/25/video-offshore-racing-back-in-the-day/

Enoshima, Japan (July 25, 2021) – After two weeks of training in steady onshore breezes, the sailors were dealt a very different and more difficult hand for the opening day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition. On the Enoshima […]

(July 24, 2021) – Although several teams have finished, there are still some on course persevering…. Last night was a great night of sailing under a full moon, scattered clouds, and rolling seas, giving HORIZON ample opportunities to surf down […]

You can’t win an Olympic medal in sailing without having a fast boat. Just like in motor racing where winning comes from a combination of man and machine working together in harmony, the same is true in Olympic sailing. To […]

(July 22, 2021) – All eyes are on the YB trackers now to anticipate the arrival of the first finishers in the 2021 Transpac. The favorable weather in this year’s race of 2225 miles from LA to Honolulu has resulted […]

Kingston, ONT (July 22, 2021) – High Performance Sailing in Canada will reach new heights with the development of National Sail Training Centres, which include sites in the Atlantic, Central and Pacific areas of the country. Through programs and services […]

Corpus Christi, TX (July 22, 2021) – On the penultimate day of the J/22 World Championship, the discard race came into play but didn’t knock Jeff Progelhof’s Schitzen Giggles from the top of the leaderboard. With crew Paul Foerster and […]

For most of the past five years since Rio, the fight for 470 supremacy has swung back and forth between three men’s teams – the Swedes, the Spanish, and the Australians. In recent times, however, things have got more complicated. […]

While it was always possible for women to compete in Olympic Events in the ‘open era’, the reality was that very few did. So for the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games in Korea, the first ever women’s sailing event was created, […]

Ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, Japan’s Ocean Day is being celebrated across the nation on July 22, 2021. The day marks the return of Emperor Meiji from a steamship trip to the Tohoku Region of Japan […]

July 22, 2021) – With many countries around the world, including those in southern Europe, still in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the GC32 Racing Tour delayed the start of their 2021 season. Skipping the May and June events […]

The debut of Whidbey Island Race Week came in 1983 when this pop-up regatta was launched in Oak Harbor, WA. For nearly four decades, Race Week had called Whidbey Island home, but when the facilities required a venue change, the […]